Along with the underlying charting library — called Gneisschart — the tool has given everyone in our worldwide newsroom 24-hour access to simple charts at graphics-desk quality. It has helped all of our reporters and editors become more responsible for their own content and less dependent on others with specialized graphics skills. The rise of Chartbuilder The project started as a tool for myself. Dismayed by some of the ugly, poorly cropped, off-brand, and illegible charts showing up on Quartz and frustrated by the amount of my own time it was taking to produce even the simplest charts in our style, I set out to make a tool that would allow me to support the charting needs of the newsroom without consuming all of my time.

Have a look at the sample on the left: Every visitor leaves an eternal dot on the 3D globe, recent visitor locations are tagged by the labels showing the flag of the country as well as city and state. All widgets are free of charge, easy to install and customizable in size and appearance. Every widget is connected to the public live statistics page providing more detailed information on your visitors. Get an overview of all widgets in the widget gallery.

Get Started To quickly embed the globe from the sample above in your page follow two steps: Choose a size and copy the code from the textarea below to the desired position in your HTML structure. 1. More options 2. More Widgets, More Configuration Options → Get the Standard Version, the globe as shown above. An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data. Information aesthetics - Information Visualization & Visual Comm. Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox. We rarely think twice when sending an email, or adding a few CCs just for good measure.

But these small interactions add up, and when deconstructed en masse, will reveal more about you than you might ever expect. Immersion is an interactive network data visualization created at MIT Media Lab’s Macro Connections group by Deepak Jagdish, Daniel Smilkov and Cesar Hidalgo. All you do is give the site access to your Gmail account. It promises to look only at the email headers: From, To, CC, and timestamp fields within your email history. And through the wonders of data mining, it will build an extremely accurate web of your personal relationships. “We are basically counting each multi-personal email as an expression of a connection between the people involved in that email,” Hidalgo tells me. Interestingly enough, Immersion started as a quest to redesign the email inbox.
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Online Charts Builder. Hohli Online Charts Builder New version: Try new version of Charts Builder, it based on new Google Charts API Load From Image URL: Chart Data can't equal to original, but very similar to it.

Indiemapper - Free yourself from GIS. Essential Resources: Tools for collecting and handling data. This is part of a series of posts to share with readers a useful collection of some of the most important, effective and practical data visualisation-related resources.

This post presents a collection of useful tools, resources and references for gathering, cleaning and preparing your data for analysis and design. Please note, I may not have personally used all the packages or tools presented but have seen sufficient evidence of their value from other sources. Whilst some inclusions may be contentious from a quality/best-practice perspective, they may still provide some good features and provide value to a certain audience out there. Finally, to avoid re-inventing the wheel, descriptive text may have been reproduced from the native websites if they provide the most articulate descriptions.

Your feedback is most welcome to help curate this collection, keep it up to date and preserve its claim to be an essential list of resources! Typeform. Adzebill Design. NodeBox. Visage - Create and Automate Beautiful Reports. Protovis. Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots.

Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)!

Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub.